OHP Says Paramedic Flashed Obscene Gesture

Trooper Daniel Martin wrote in his report, that after the ambulance pulled out in front of him, while he was running hot to a call, he radioed the driver to pay attention.

"Let's see the tape as soon as possible. A picture is worth a thousand words and the tape will prove this officer did not see a failure to yield, did not have his siren on and the driver did nothing wrong," said White's attorney Richard O'Carroll.

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UNDATED -- OHP troopers give their side of the story concerning a scuffle with a Creek Nation paramedic.

Trooper Daniel Martin wrote in his report, that after the ambulance pulled out in front of him, while he was running hot to a call, he radioed the driver to pay attention. Trooper Martin says the driver then flipped him off.

Trooper Martin says when he pulled over the ambulance to talk to the driver, the paramedic in the back, Maurice White, jumped out in a hostile manner and repeatedly got between the trooper and the driver.

Martin says when he tried to arrest White, he resisted. Martin says the driver apologized for not yielding and denied making the finger gesture.

Trooper Martin says when he told White he would be arrested at the hospital, White grabbed his neck and refused to let go until the trooper applied a choke hold.

Trooper Martin says if White hadn't interfered, the confrontation would never have happened.

Meanwhile, EMT Maurice White has hired an attorney to give his side of the story, and not surprisingly, it differs from the trooper's version.

OHP has said a cell phone video doesn't tell the whole story of the incident between Trooper Daniel Martin and Paramedic Maurice White. White's attorney says then, OHP should provide the trooper's dash cam video.

"Let's see the tape as soon as possible. A picture is worth a thousand words and the tape will prove this officer did not see a failure to yield, did not have his siren on and the driver did nothing wrong," said White's attorney Richard O'Carroll.

O'Carroll says the trooper didn't turn on his siren until after he passed the ambulance.

He wants to know why the trooper had a civilian woman in the front seat with him and why he was running hot to a stolen car report and why did the trooper pull over an ambulance and put a woman's health in jeopardy?

"He communicated immediately he had a patient. This lady had fallen over, was having chest pains, she needed to go to the hospital immediately," said White's attorney Richard O'Carroll.

He says the trooper, not White, was the aggressor in both instances, that he assaulted White, not the other way around and that the trooper used an illegal choke hold on White.